Saturday, September 29, 2007

TONIGHT


http://www.bossip.com/6282/timbaland-says-jay-z-just-raps-for-fun/

Jay-Z might be a hobbyist, but DICEMAN FRANCIS be on the turntables tonight in Ft. Greene spinnin the wildest world and Brooklyn sounds.

Birthday party for Big Dave, Wild Irish Rosie and Soul Legend Sam Reed. Get down, get dowwwwn.

395 Adelphi, Buzzer 2L
Ft. Greene --> Any train to Atlantic

TONIGHT


http://www.bossip.com/6282/timbaland-says-jay-z-just-raps-for-fun/

Jay-Z might be a hobbyist, but DICEMAN FRANCIS be on the turntables tonight in Ft. Greene spinnin the wildest world and Brooklyn sounds.

Birthday party for Big Dave, Wild Irish Rosie and Soul Legend Sam Reed. Get down, get dowwwwn.

395 Adelphi, Buzzer 2L
Ft. Greene --> Any train to Atlantic

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Down in Folsom Prison

Well hello there! I guess I've let down all my readers with my lack of posting, but I was in the closest thing to confinement since my one mishap in Oneonta back in the day.

I've been staying at a place called King's Hospital in Palmerstown, which is about 20 minutes outside of Dublin proper. Not so bad, but it was rough. There was one bar within walking distance and a little mall, but not a thing else. Rough. I hardly left campus sometimes. And on top of that - may the Lord forgive them - hardly no internet access. They allowed staff members to go on from 4-6 PM and blocked access to everything fun: blogger, youtube, myspace, ya know...all the geeky stuff I stand behind.

So I was pretty much stuck there for the past week, but got into the city quite a bit. I found some Korean food that was pretty good on Parnell St. in Dublin. Our bus-driver Mick said that's where all the Polish and "nigs" live and that I should be careful. Mick's a weird bloke. Total alpha male and has the admiration of all my female co-workers. He splits his time between Ireland and Thailand. I'll let you decide your thoughts on Thailand, but it sounds a bit sketchy to ol' Kev.

I was pretty pumped to get out of King's Hospital. Dublin is a fair city, though. I DJ'd (I think I posted 4-5 times about it) at this art space called This is Not a Shop last Friday and then went to this place called Dice Bar. I hear it's owned by the guy from that band the Fun Loving Criminals:



Whoa. I met some good folks there - one lady who used to live in Downtown Brooklyn. She knew Moe's, a bar I like in Ft. Greene. I also got to visit the Sinn Fein office -- the political party that used to be associated with the IRA. It was kinda shabby and not what I expected, but I'm glad I got to see it. I got some Republican propaganda and what not. Very nice, thank you.

Other than that, I'm looking forward to getting back. Working/traveling is a weird mix. The one thing I like about traveling is not having a fixed schedule and being able to do whatever I want. Not this time, though. And I've been moving around with the same 74 students and the same 7 staff members. I kinda need a change. Only another week, I guess. I can't take this total immersion thing. I might go out alone tonight. I'm in Galway now and there's a little art festival going on. Pics still forthcoming! I gotta get the f outta here.

God bless. Thanks for readin still.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Thank you, Studentios.



They had this song ready for me today after a week of having it in my head. Thanks y'all!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Witch Season

We've been discussing the poor treatment that the Irish faced when they arrived in America. Ya know, "No Irish Need Apply" and all that. But I told them about an Irish woman named Ann Glover who was hanged for being a witch in Boston in 1688. They misinterpreted her native Irish for some sort of evil witch-speak when and claimed to get a confession out of her.

That was pretty much the sentiment of the time. In 1650, this English bloke Richard Mather said that the new influx of Irish into Boston was "an attempt by Satan and his sons to unsettle us." Damn -- the Irish is the devil!! And people are still chasing witches.

There is a strict no-drinking policy in effect on this trip for the students. Even if a kid is suspected of drinking, he or she will get a phone call home to the parents. If they get caught or are suspected again, they will be sent home to the US. And one group of kids has already been suspected and got that dreaded phone call to their parents. Now, of course, they're on the other teachers' collective "S-lists" and are being sought out at every turn. And I happen to think they're pretty good kids.

Any entrance into a pub is considered a violation, which I agree with. But today, however, I took a couple of the "suspect kids" into a restaurant that also served booze in the front because the meals here are pretty much shit.

Brekkers: shitty cereal, occasionally ripe fruit and toast.
Lunch: Potatoes, thin piece of meat, gruel-like soup.
Dinner: see lunch

So I said, hell - let's get some decent food! Then one teacher, who I guess is my superior because she's about 37 and was a teacher back when I was on the trip, pulled me aside and reprimanded me for taking them "into a pub." After acknowledging that it was more restaurant than pub, the teacher called the kid an "arrogant shit" who she knows will eventually drink.

Awkward. But now the teachers are all talking about how their one roommate, who is more innocent than they are, bought a pipe and is smoking with another group of kids because he "probably wants to distance himself from the drinkers." Or a kid who just buys a pipe will smoke with the others kids who smoke? How about that? Witch hunts are still alive, my friends. Let the kids playball.

Oddly cold, oddly.

It'd be a waste of breath complaining about the weather here. It ain't so bad, but Ireland is known for having a dampness that chills the bones and has everyone saying, "Some weather, eh?"

We're still in Waterford. We've been cramming our days filled with trips to various lighthouses, castles and beach side resorts. We saw a grand place called Tramore that reeks of the Jersey shore. Arcades, skee-ball, Taz tats, you name it. We built a golf course on the beach and named every hole after things relating to the hood and N.W.A: Compton, EZ-Z, Dre, the Stuy, more gutter stuff ya know..

Today we depart for Cork, probably the city I'm most looking forward to. I have a DJ gig with this act in Dublin this Friday: http://www.myspace.com/youreonlymassive

Friday, July 6, 2007

Scenic Kilkenny

Boy, does Ireland have castles! Two in one day was probably a bit much, but I did alright.

At Kilkenny Castle, I fell in love with the wallpaper work of Sir William Morris. Look at this dang pattern:




Kilkenny Castle


At the Rock of Cashel, I saw a bunch of dang ol graves and other stuff. 'Twas fine. The lads rolled down the hills.


Rock of Cashel

Otherwise, one kid got busted for underage drinking. One counselor may have smelled it on him, but I don't know the full story. Send me a gmail.